Chapter 6 Anxiety

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generalized anxiety disorder (GAD)

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Worry persists and interferes with life
50% of days for 3 months
Avoidance of situations

Question 1

social anxiety disorder

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1) persistent unrealistic intend fear of social situations that might involve being scrutinized by exposed to strangers
2) more pervasive and interferes more than phobias
33% comorbid with personality disorder

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Worry

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Cognitive tendency to chew on a problem unable to let go

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Agoraphobia

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Anxiety of social situations wherein it would be difficult to escape if anxiety symptoms occurred
Need 2 situations
Social situations consistently provoke fear/ anxiety

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Panic disorder

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Frequent panic attacks unrelated to the specific situations
Worry about more panic attacks (1 month)
Recurrent and uncued panic attacks

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Panic attack

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Sudden attack of intense apprehension, fear, terror, feeling of impending doom

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Depersonalization

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A feeling of being outside of now’s body

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Derealization

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Feeling of the world’s not being real

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Specific phobia

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Marked and disproportionate fear triggered consistently by specific things
Avoidance
There is a high comorbidity of specific phobias

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Anxiety

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Apprehension over anticipated problems

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Fear

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Reaction to immediate danger

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Criteria for diagnosis Anxiety Disorders

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Interferes with important functions and causes distress
Not caused by drugs
Distinct from other anxiety disorders

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Cognitive factors anxiety disorder

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Sustained negative beliefs that lead to safety behaviors
Lack of perceived control
Heightened attention to threat

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Safety behaviors

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Avoidance to reduce things that cause anxiety

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Behavioral inhibition

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Becoming agitated over new things
Most seen in babies
Linked to neuroticism in later life

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Neuroticism

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Over react negatively

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Neurobiological factors anxiety

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Fear circuit: hippocampus, amygdaloid
Medial prefrontal cortex for emotional regulation
Poor functioning serotonin systems
High norepinephrine
Poor GABA functioning

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Fear conditioning

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Mowrer’s two factor model

Can be an effect of direct experience, seeing another or through verbal instruction.

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Mowrer’s two factor model

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Classical conditioning – introduction to fear stimulus

Operant conditioning – relief by avoidance

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Neurobiological factors panic disorder

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Locus coeruleus

Norepinephrine triggers Sympathetic nervous system activity

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Etiology specific phobia

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Behaviorally through conditioning
Genetic vulnerability, neuroticism, negative cognition
Prepared learning

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Prepared learning

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Fear circuit prepare by evolution to fear certain stimuli

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Etiology social anxiety disorder

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2 factor conditioning and safety behaviors

Focus on negative self- evaluation

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Etiology panic disorder

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Locus coeruleus source of norepinephrine
Norepinephrine triggers sympathetic nervous system
Classical conditioning
Interception conditioning
Signs of impending doom

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Interoceptive conditioning

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Classical conditioning of panic attacks in response to bodily sensations

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Etiology generalized anxiety disorder

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Worry is reinforcing
Distraction from unpleasant emotions
Decreased psychosocial signs of arousal
Past traumas

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Etiology agoraphobia

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Fear of fear hypothesis

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Fear of fear

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Negative thoughts about the consequences of experiencing anxiety in public

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Treatment anxiety disorders

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Exposure and extinction
Systematic desensitization
Cognitive behavioral treatments

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Preventing relapse

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Encounter contains as many features of feared thing as possible
As many contexts as possible

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Treatment phobias

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In Volvo exposure to feared object

Systematic desensitization